The Olney City Council approved a $15,000 contract to allow an Abilene engineering company to assess the city’s water treatment plant and devise a plan to refurbish it, starting as soon as spring 2026.
The plan to hire Jacob | Martin Architecture & Engineering comes about a year after the Council rejected bids to build a new water treatment plant, using the $13.5 million in revenue bonds issued in April of 2023.
The bids came in about $2 million higher than the available revenue, as a result of COVID-19 supply chain prob- lems, as well as rising in- terest rates and inflation…